Google's rumoured GPhone has been announced however it is in fact not a phone but merely a free Linux-based operating system that will be pre-installed on phones from various manufacturers.

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Google has unveiled its phone platform, Android. It's yet another Linux OS, freely licensed, and will appear in devices in the second half of next year. Google has signed up over 30 partners including Qualcomm, Motorola, HTC and operators including Deutsche Telekom for the "Open Handset Alliance".

CEO Eric Schmidt described it as "the first truly open platform for mobile devices." Android, named after the start-up company Google acquired in 2005, encompasses middleware and applications as well as the base kernel. An SDK is promised for download next Monday under an Apache license. However, the ad-supported model will take a while to shake out.

That's a bit of a disappointment as an actual Google phone would no doubt have shaken things up a little...

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